Transit
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Three ways the King Street Pilot creates more livable communities
As the Toronto Transit Commission’s King Street Pilot hits the one-year mark, its fate is uncertain. Data shows an 11% increase in public transit...
By Diana Yoon -
We need to talk about cars
When we plan for our transportation future, whether we’re talking at the municipal, regional or provincial level, there’s an elephant in the room. Even...
By Tricia Wood -
Walking around the Scarborough RT
[Editor’s Note: with the Ontario Premier and both frontrunners in the Toronto mayoral race backing some version of a subway to replace the ageing...
By Chris Penrose -
PODCAST: Election Panel with Tricia Wood and Matt Elliott
As Toronto gets ready to vote, we’ll be bringing you regular panel discussions with journalists and experts who will help you wade through what is maybe...
By Spacing Radio -
“Fair” evasion: public transit must make space for everyone
Editor’s note: Spacing is pleased to introduce you to our new urban affairs columnist, Patricia Burke Wood. Tricia is a geography professor at York...
By Tricia Wood -
LORINC: The Subway in the Room
Almost a year ago, the Toronto Star’s Jennifer Pagliaro published a story detailing, with her trademark meticulousness, how then chief planner and now...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: Breaking down Doug Ford’s impossible, ridiculous, scandalous subway to Pickering
Because we here in Spacing’s bustling newsroom like to provide informative and constructive analysis to politicians of all stripes, we felt it would be...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: What Toronto should learn from Hamburg’s self-driving shuttle pilot
HAMBURG, GERMANY — At some point in 2019, the first of three curiously upright shuttle vehicles will begin tooling around a 3.6km loop of city streets in...
By John Lorinc -
Athletic traffic planning: Moving thousands of fans on game day
When the Leafs or Blue Jays play a home game, Doug Tuira doesn’t watch to see if Auston Matthews will score an overtime winner or Roberto Osuna will close...
By David Hains -
What a Doug Ford government will do about (or to) transit
In the next few days, work crews will begin tearing up the intersection of Finch Ave. West and Martin Grove — deep in the heart of Ford Nation – in order...
By John Lorinc -
Gord Perks’ Twitter thread on Toronto transit
On Tuesday, city councillor Gord Perks posted a Twitter thread that our editors thought would be both insightful and entertaining for our readers. 1...
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LORINC: Why a TTC commuter will get killed at Yonge-Bloor station
There is, in this city, a person going about their business today who will die after being accidentally shoved in front of a moving subway at Yonge and...
By John Lorinc